Homesteading is thought to be one one of the best ways to prepare for any long-term disaster. Although bugging out is possible, having your own piece of land in a (semi) secluded place is ideal.
Read the articles below to learn how to homestead on a small piece of land because it takes time to become good at them. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll be prepared.
Some of the things you’ll learn include:
Foraging is not only an essential survival skill to have honed if you ever find yourself in a survival situation, it should also a vital part of your prepping and food security plan. Free resources abound, thanks to nature, and all preppers should be taking advantage of them – especially when it comes to harvesting …
Foraging Hickory Nuts: How to Identify, Harvest, and Preserve Read More »
Preppers are prone to stockpiling wheat as part of the family’s food security plan. While doing so is an excellent idea, one day those 5-gallon buckets of wheat might run out. Buying long-term wheat buckets can not only get rather expensive, they take up a lot of storage space. Growing your own wheat, especially red …
If you are not absolutely new to prepping, you have heard it stated many times that a SHTF event could suddenly jettison us back to an 1800s era existence. It will not take a cyber attack on the power grid or an EMP attack to cause modern society to step back in history a few …
How a Visit to an 1800s-Style Village Can Help You Prepare for SHTF Read More »
Chicory has been used for both medicinal and edible purposes for more than 5,000 years. Not only does chicory taste delicious as coffee and jelly, it can help heal and prevent a plethora of health problems. The wild chicory plant typically boasts a blue to purple flower, but the petals can be either white or …
Chicory Wildcrafting: How to Find and Use This Powerful Plant Read More »
Protecting your stockpile from rodents can seem like a never ending battle – especially when you appear to be losing the war. Not only is it essential that we keep our stockpiled preps out of the paws and mouths of rodents now, but especially after the actual SHTF event. If a mouse gets into your …
Long-term and sustainable milk options are far more than many preppers realize. Keeping livestock or spending a lot of money (and using a ton of space) to stockpile commercially manufactured powdered milk are only two of many ways to ensure there will be milk to drink, cook, and bake with during a SHTF event. Milk …
If you raise animals, no matter how large or small your farm or homestead, there’s one thing that you must deal with, manure. Different animals produce varying amounts of waste, anywhere from 50 lbs a day per horse to about 11 lbs per day for pigs and just under 5 lbs a day for chickens. …
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f you’re paying any attention to world affairs and particularly the current political condition of the United States, it’s obvious that trouble is brewing which could lead to economic collapse or some other SHTF event. But even if you don’t believe that our world could change as we know it, there are still major benefits …
50 Excellent Ways to Start Becoming More Self-Reliant Read More »
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n article of this nature cannot hope to cover every single plant or food source that can or can’t be fed to an animal. However there are some foods that are toxic to certain animals which humans consider healthy – like avocado. If you have experience on a food source that is not good for …
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot just any piece of land can be turned into a survival homesteading retreat – at least not a quality one that will keep your family safe, well fed, and adequately hydrated. Our search for the right piece of land to turn into a prepper retreat took about three years. At times I never thought …
